Water, Wishing, Wellness

Think of your endeavor as a seed, planted in a garden, and your dedication is the water. Wishing is one thing, but watering and nurturing your idea is another. While wishing is a wonderful, part of your journey to fruition, working towards it is the reality. Your personal, professional, and financial wellness will be imperative to your ultimate success.

Question

1. How will you water your idea today?

2. What does watering your idea entail?

Activity

1. Set up a watering schedule for your attempt. Create a weekly list of assignments and duties to keep your endeavor invigorated, commit to this list and follow-through

Vision, Velocity, Victory

Any endeavor taken as an entrepreneur must come from vision. You must see the success of your attempt as long-term a long-term project. The passion behind the vision creates velocity for your effort to first take shape, then form, and eventually grow. That growth in itself is victory. Capitalizing on that victory is the American Dream. When our best entrepreneurial spirit manifest and shines beyond our immediate expectations, the American dream is realized. Coupled with this there must be a world vision that mirrors your success. This world vision must encompass the current state of affairs, enviromentalism, and create a small space for making a change in the world. Failure to incorporate a World Vision is why many once successful enterprises are failing miserably.

Questions

1. What is your short-term vision? What is your long-term vision? What three ways can you create velocity in your vision today?

Uniqueness, Unity, Ubiquity

In a sea of great minds, wonderful inventions and other curiosities, you just be unique in our approach. Getting stakeholders, investors, and customers to rally and unify around your concepts will be imperative to your success. You want to create a sense of ubiquity while you're marketing and selling your ideas. Be careful that this ubiquitousness is not just a fad but that it can have a lasting presence. A good example of a ubiquitous product is pantyhose. They are found everywhere, new upstart companies are constantly improving them and creating newer products from them like Spanks and undergarments the likes of what Ardyss Life produces. Men are secretly wearing pantyhose for everything from back problems to fetishes. It's something simple and long lasting that makes the best use of your time. This is why your passion and personal belief in what you are doing will be important. If you like and would invest, or buy into it, you have a much better chance of convincing others of your endeavor's merit.

Questions

1. What three ubiquitous products or services do you use and or like?

Activity

1. (In learning) Gather in groups of 3 or more. Each person should come up with one idea present it to one another in groups. Each group should rally around one person's idea, based on merit, usefulness, and uniqueness.

2. (In Practice) So how many people you can commit to to form a solid team. Repeat Activity One with commitment and follow through. Remember to commit to a certain amount of time to pursue your endeavor, reevaluate that pursuit often. Fine tune your attempts.

Truth, Trust, Think, Thoroughness

You must tell the truth, to yourself as well as others. False promises will get you nowhere and will become frustrating for you and everyone that you make a false promise too. During these stages of your attempts, you must build trust between yourself and others. This trust will be important as you move forward and progress with the process. Your thoughts are the most valuable tool to create success. Think about what you want, how it will work, and every other detail. It may be challenging to find the time to think, coupled with life's responsibilities. Make the time because your thoughts are assets. Keep accurate track and record thoughts, meetings, and other details with thoroughness. Forgetting one thing can be the difference between success and failure.

Questions

1. What are the fundamental truth's of your idea?

2. Do you have trustworthy relationships that you have cultivated personally and professionally?

3. What are your thoughts on your endeavor?

4. What are other's thoughts?

Activity

1. In a group setting or alone create a list with the fundamental truth of your attempt as your heading and then group your thoughts as others as steps. After recording the steps put them in order for execution

Sacredness, Sacrifice, Spirituality, Surrendering

Your investment, idea, or endeavor, must be held as a sacred trust between it and yourself, your partners, and stakeholders. It must be so delicious to everyone that it actually has a taste. In order to achieve the taste of success that you desire there will come many sacrifices that must be made. Many entrepreneur's will make these sacrifices from birth or very young in life, and these experiences serve to create the entrepreneurial spirit. Some will be new to the experience of sacrifice. Experiencing sacrifice does not have to be negative if you remember the purpose. Spirituality should be a source of comfort and surrendering your experience to the divine presence or God. If you are an atheist, disciplined exercise or rituals may serve as the same.

Question

1. What is the definition of sacred?
2. Is your idea sacred?

Activity

1. Identify what is sacred about your idea?
2. Identify what may not be sacred and adjust accordingly

Remembrance, Reality, Realty, Royalty

The act of remembering is important. Callbacks, follow up, keeping promises, phone numbers, locations, your personal and professional actions, there are moral, social, and physical obligations that will enable the success of your entrepreneurial endeavor. We will refer to these steps as the rungs on the ladder of success. The reality of your potential to succeed is based on your daily dedication to the steps on the ladder. Your personal measure of success is based on what you utmost wants, desires, and dreams are. You cannot be afraid of your own dreams. These dreams are the beacons that will guide your course.

"My personal utmost dreams are land ownership, and to create an environment for my grandparents to retire in that is befitting of their familial royalty"

QUESTION
1. What are your utmost wants? What are your utmost needs? What do you dream about?

ACTIVITY
1. Create a list of what you must remember to do today to forward your idea/endeavor.
2, Take that list and begin to cross things off one at a time.

Questions, Quotas, Quiet

When will it happen? Am I doing enough to propel things along? Will this really work? Is my idea good enough? Am I good enough? These along with a million other questions will arise while you work toward success In god's eyes yes you are, however the eyes of those you will need to consult, collaborate, and compromise with, will be more challenging to win over. This is when you will need to fill your quotas. Comments, suggestions, certifications, legalities, etc. There are moral quotas you must fill, they include honesty, and gratitude. Don't let outside distractions keep you from achieving your goal. Distractions may vary but you must be consistent about your thoughts during your quiet time. During quiet time you must keep your thoughts positive, light, and ever forward on success. Those thoughts, aligned with the proper actions will eventually result in success. This is divine law!

Questions

1. What will you do everyday to assure your success?

2. What negative thoughts and other distractions are in your path?

Exercises

1. Negative thoughts can be discarded through strong mental focus on success, identify the physical distractions that require action on your and begin to put action to each, one at a time.

Patience, Persistence, Panic

Patience and persistence will go hand in hand. It takes time to bring your endeavor to fruition. You must be continuous in your efforts and be willing to push until your idea is realized. Resist the urge to panic and push forward. Hone your skills, perfect your craft, face the obstacles, and use them as an opportunity to buff and polish your proposal. In your efforts to gain some support or attention, seek inspiration and instructions first and these things will follow. This advice must go hand in hand with a solid marketing strategy, effective implementation, and careful execution of accounting and legalities.

Questions

1. Identify- Why is patience necessary at this time? Decide where you are in your attempts, For example are you looking for an idea, or are you far along and waiting for a patent. Do you need legal assistance, are you raising money?

2. Once you realize where you are in your attempts. Create a list of what you should be doing to progress. If you are uncertain, identify where you can go for advice. Include but do not limit your list to classes, workshops, online, networking events, and local business associations.

Exercise

1. In a group setting, share your progress with others on your endeavor, ask for feedback, allow yourself to see their feed back as steps towards progress. Keep an accurate account of their feedback for followup on your part

2. After receiving feedback construct a followup plan to address each issue. Create a list and focus on aspect at a time

Optimism, Outsourcing, Opulence

Stay open to all possibilities. Optimism is a source, a belief, solid knowledge of what could happen. Now is the time to analyze and study what is missing from your endeavor, or product. It may be a myriad of things missing, do not be discouraged. Simply list them and then attempt to cross them off your list one at a time. This is the time to out source. If you are not good at something surround yourself with an expert that is. At this stage you may be tempted to down-size, down grade or dismiss your idea. Instead indulge in the opulence of your creation, imagine, picture it and draw, sketch, computer design, or paint it, bring it from your innermost creativity and allow it to manifest in its full glory. It is then you will find true success.

Questions

1. How do you continue or plan to stay optimistic if you have truly lost all hope?

2. What is your source of inspiration?

Exercise

1. Decide what may be missing from your endeavor, create a numbered list. Begin to work on one thing at a time. It is important to focus on completing the list. This is what will move your endeavor to the next stage or level.

No, Negativity, Narcissim

The first five hundred times you hear the word no when it comes to your furthering your idea, financing or funding, will be quite a shock. Hearing no will be a crushing blow both to your ego and your willingness to move forward in your endeavors. If you still can find the light in your idea at the end of this negative tunnel, you will need to develop an almost narcissistic point of view in your pursuit. I say almost because you cannot be so egotistical in your belief's that you close yourself off to constructive criticism, potential customer feedback and expert ideas or suggestions that can help serve your cause. One piece of expert advice that I received during my nearly three decades as an entrepreneur is that no's will knock you down, but the number of times you get up will determine how bad you want it, and how successful you will be. You must muster up the strength to analyze each no for clarity, and ask yourself these questions, was it justified, can you learn from it, how can you turn it into a yes?

Questions

1. Remember a time when someone told you know when you really wanted or needed a yes. If you abided by the no decision did it serve you well? Did it help or hinder your cause? (Example a parent saying no to a teenager about a attending a party and then if the party turns wild with the police being called, kids being arrested, and lots of property damage may make a teen grateful for the no)

2. After recalling your personal story ask yourself what would you do differently that may have resulted in a yes? List your new actions. Did you learn from the no or resent it? Are there any lessons to be learned from hearing no or do you believe that no to have been a mistake? List any lessons that were learned

Exercise

1. Practice ten minutes worth of narcissistic behavior including extreme selfishness and a grandiose view of your own talents, attention getting tactics and over the top self centeredness. If you are in a group take turns displaying this behavior on the group. If you are alone call someone either known or a stranger and practice this behavior. Practice this behavior in a mirror. If you are able go out to a restaurant, library or other public place and practice this behavior or others. Note your observations including how it felt, how others reacted towards you, what you liked and disliked about displaying this behavior. What parts of this behavior were beneficial, what part of this behavior would you keep, what parts were not beneficial, and what parts of this behavior would you get rid of?

Money, Management, Marketing, Making it Happen

Money means different things to different people. To an entrepreneur it's a chance to turn a dream into reality. Before you can convince an investor to give you money, you must show that you can, and have managed your own money. Keeping accurate bank records, little to no debt, good credit rating, and some cash flow are key aspects of good management. If you can prove this to a potential investor, marketing your idea, yourself, and your product will come next. These are the direct steps to making it happen. If your personal resources are out of order and you cannot balance your own checkbook, take time to educate yourself first on your own finances, before attempting to tell an investor what they should do with theirs.

Questions

1. Are your personal finances in order?

2. If your personal finances are not in order what steps do you need to take to fix the problems?

Exercise (Groups)

1. Identify the individual strengths and challenges in your group, if alone identify your own. Look at your challenges list and decide what type of experts you will have to surround yourself with to overcome the challenges. What stage of development will this expert be necessary?

Longevity, Lofty, Love

The longevity of your idea or proposal can be important. If you attempt to be trendy and what you have created has a short life-span it may not stand the test of time. If it takes years to bring your vision to life and your idea has a small shelf life, by the time you get in front of clients or investors interest may wane. It is better to put time, and energy into something that will last than to follow trends. This is where loving what you do will become extremely important. The longer it takes for your dream to take flight, the more passion you must have for it. Passion will be the driving force behind your pursuit. Without you, your idea, and your desire to see it through will run out of gas and fast! Don't be so lofty in your ideals that you cannot take criticism or corrections. Be open! A little adjustment can make the difference between funding and failure.

Evaluate your longevitiy and that of others

1. Name three things that you have given years of dedication and commitment to

2. Name three things that you let go, that you wish you had given years of dedication and commitment to

3. Identify trends or fads from your childhood or youth that no longer exsist

4. Identify trends or fads from your childhood that you or others still use today

Exercise

1. Identify something that you are passionate about, then list these steps, how were you introduced to this, how long did it take you to get good at it, what challenges if did you face in getting good at it, do you still indulge this passion, and do you share this passion with others?

2. If you cannot find anything that you are passionate abou, make a list of why you aren't passionate about anything and list these steps, how were you distracted from finding your passion, were you discouraged, did you hurt yourself or someone else in pursuit of passion, did someone hurt you?

3. Once you have listed your passion or passionlessness, turn your list into a fictional product and then create a 30 second commercial for the product, if in groups present the commercials to one another, if alone practice in a mirror. Answer these questions; Did your commercial make you or others, laugh, cry, or react in any way? List the reactions. Did your commercial make you or others want to buy your fictional product?

4. If you listed yourself as passionless, create a fictional product to cure passionlessness and then create a 30 second commercial for this product, if in groups present the commercials to one another, if alone practice in a mirror. Answer the same questions listed in Exercise 3.